The Hersch Langsam Family of Blazowa, Poland

Some background email from the family can be found here.

Hersch Langsam (1870 - c.1942) was married to Rochel and had seven known children. On Aug 29, 1910 he traveled to the USA aboard the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm out of Bremen, Germany. He was going to his brother-in-law, Jacob Weber. His wife did not travel with him. He later returned to Europe (before 1920). He perished in the Holocaust.

• Jacob (Nov 15, 1891 - Sep 1969) was born in Blazowa, Poland. He married to Fannie and they had two known children. Later in life he married Rose (1908 - 1974). His profession was a shoemaker. He came to the USA on Jul 13, 1910 aboard the Bremen, sailing out of Bremen, Germany. He was going to his uncle, Jacob Weber, in NYC.
  • Max (Apr 10, 1915 - July 1987) married twice. With his first wife, Sylvia, he had two children. He subsequently married Celia and had two more children.
    Stanley, Andrew, Suzan & Penny
  • Jennie
    married Jack Bush and had two children.
    Robert & Fay
• Ksil was married.
• Yosef Yitzchok (1896 - 1967) was married to Rose and had three children.
  • Clara
  • Nathan married Celia Silverstein and has five children.
    Andrea, Rose, Harvey, Jeffrey & Alan
  • Max has one known son.
    Marc
• Clara (1898 - ?) was born in Blazowa as Chaya. She came to the USA as a single girl on Dec 13, 1920 aboard the Canada, sailing out of Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhone, France. She was going to her uncle Weber on Madison Avenue in NYC. Clara married Morris Seckler and had two children.
  • Shirley married Alex Wasserman and had two children.
    child & child
  • Ruth married Sidney Schwartz and had two children.
    child & child
• Aharon (1902 - 1939) came to Danzig (today, Gdansk) in the year 1929 from his hometown in Poland - Blazowa. He married Esther Leinhardt in December of 1929. Life was good in those years, but became unbearable in 1934 when the Nazi Party in Danzig gained strength and Jews were being persecuted. They had two sons, their second one being born in 1937. In September 1939 the Wehrmacht (German army) attacked the Polish garrison on Westerplatte which controlled the entrance to the Danzig harbour. Jews were being send to concentrations camps. Aharon and other heads of household escaped on a illegal ship bound for Palestine. The boat was detained in Yugoslavia and all 1300 men and woman were shot dead by the Nazis and buried in a mass grave in Sabac, Yugoslavia. Esther and her two sons stayed on in Danzig waiting for another opportunity to flee. Finally, in August 1940, they left by train and then boat. It was intercepted by a British warship while trying to bring Jewish refugees to the shores of Palestine. They were detained in Atlith, Palestine, where Herman, then only three years old, died of typhoid. Esther and Oscar were exiled to Mauritius.
  • Oscar Jehoshua married Hadassa Goldrosen and has two children. They live in Israel.
    Nachum & Racheli Iluz
  • Herman (1937 - 1940)
• Sura Gitel
• Yente

Some background email from the family can be found here.

I would be very interested to hear from anyone with knowledge or an interest in the Miller family.

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Last updated 12/24/01